Advocacy and Public Policy Committee News Alert, November 2020

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to keep the ARLIS/NA membership informed. The monthly alerts are intended to be conversation starters, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments.

Published: 12/15/2020

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts v.6 n.11, November 2020

Previous issues can be found here: https://arlisna.org/news/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts.

Black Lives Matter Updates

"A Call for Ivy+ Libraries to Divest from Police and Prisons and Invest in Life-Giving Resources," AbLAIvy+, December 2, 2020.
Eckles, Amelia. "Alternatives to Calling the Police." Denver Public Library, November 20, 2020.
Morrison, Heather. "Boston Saw 500% Increase in Interest in Anti-Racism Books, Libraries across the State Look to Fill Need." masslive, November 16, 2020.

COVID-19 Updates

"Museums Losing Millions, Job Losses Mount as COVID-19 Cases Surge," American Alliance of Museums, November 17, 2020.
"REALM Project Releases Results from Latest Tests of Coronavirus on Five Common Building Materials." OCLC.com, November 19, 2020.

Activism and Social Justice in the Arts

Liscia, Valentina Di. “Cuban Security Forces Raid Artist-Activist Headquarters.” Hyperallergic, November 30, 2020.
Liscia, Valentina Di. “How US Voters Weighed in on Arts and Culture on Their 2020 Ballots.” Hyperallergic, November 5, 2020.
Packard, Cassie. “Protest Signs by Artists and Celebrities Sold to Benefit Families of Black Women Killed by Police.” Hyperallergic, November 12, 2020.
Selvin, Claire. “Mary Wollstonecraft Monument in London Generates Controversy.” ARTnews.com, November 10, 2020.
Solomon, Tessa. “Upstate New York Town Government Demands Removal of Nick Cave Artwork.” ARTnews.com, November 11, 2020.
Stoilas, Helen, Nancy Kenney, and Vincent Noce. “Art World Rejoices in Biden’s Win of US Presidency.” Art Newspaper, November 8, 2020.

Copyright, Fair Use, Image Rights/Reuse

Andreadis, Steve. "Generating STEAM with Copyright." Library of Congress Copyright Blog, November 9, 2020.
Harmon, Elliot and Cara Gagliano. "Let’s Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair." Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 24, 2020.
Zhang, Michael. "Gun-Toting Couple Sues Photographer, Demands Copyright to Viral Photo." PetaPixel, November 9, 2020.

Funding

"How the Work of Americans for the Arts Is Addressing the Urgent Challenges of 2020." Americans for the Arts, November 16, 2020.
Ford, Anne. "Referenda Roundup 2020: Final Report." American Libraries, November 11, 2020.
Peet, Lisa. "Despite COVID Concerns, Library Measures Do Well at the Polls in 2020." Library Journal, November 5, 2020.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)

Li, Shirley. "American Museums Are Going Through an Identity Crisis." The Atlantic, November 28, 2020.
Marcotte, Alison. "Black Caucus of ALA Celebrates 50 Years." American Libraries, November 2, 2020.

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

Doyle, Céilí. "'Every Day, We're Falling Behind in Appalachian Ohio': Lack of Broadband Hurts Rural Areas." Columbus Dispatch, October 30, 2020.
Hall, Tracie D. "Ending Information Redlining." American Libraries, November 2, 2020.
Mahboob, Tahiat. How a BC Library's Drag Queen Story Hour Turned into a Nationwide Fight for Intellectual Freedom. CBC.ca, November 7, 2020.
Morrison, Sara. "Ajit Pai, Trump's FCC Chair Who Repealed Net Neutrality, is Leaving on January 20." Vox.com, November 30, 2020.
Rihl, Juliette. "'I'm Going to Be Lost Now': ACJ Limits Inmates' Access to Books, Raising Mental Health Concerns Amid Pandemic Restrictions." Public Source, November 24, 2020.

Open Access

Allf, Bradley. “I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal.” Undark Magazine, November 26, 2020.
Chawla, Dalmeet Singh. “Nature Journals Set to Offer All Authors Open Access Route in 2021 – for a Price.” Chemistry World, November 27, 2020.
“Community-Led Open Education Conference Expands Reach in 2020 and Beyond.” SPARC, December 1, 2020.
Sanza, Cristina, Keroles Riad, and Nancy Hamdy. “Scientists: Here’s How to Fight Back against Anti-Maskers, Climate Deniers and Anti-Vaxxers.” The Conversation, November 30, 2020.

Privacy

Dressler, Virginia. "The Right to Be Forgotten in Digital Archives." Choose Privacy Every Day, November 17, 2020.
Gardner, Gabriel J. "WHOIS behind SNSI & GetFTR?" Motley Marginalia, November 16, 2020.
Harwell, Drew. "Cheating-Detection Companies Made Millions during the Pandemic. Now Students Are Fighting Back." Washington Post, November 12, 2020. .
Mehta, Gautama. "Proposal to Install Spyware in University Libraries to Protect Copyrights Shocks Academics." Coda Story, November 13, 2020.
Tomaszewski, Stacy. "Balancing Privacy and Usability." Choose Privacy Every Day, November 2, 2020.

Workplace

Antell, Karen, and Susan E. Hahn. "Faculty Status: The Next Generation Employment Status Preferences among Millennial LIS Students and New Librarians at ARL Institutions." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 46, no. 6 (November 2020): 102250.
Farkas, Meredith. "Our Collective Power." American Libraries, November 2, 2020.
McCarther, Amye. "From Collective Responsibility to Collective Equity: An Interview with Sandy Rodriguez and Ruth Kitchin Tillman." Metropolitan Archivist, November 5, 2020.
Smith, Hannah Jane, and Suzanne Fischer. "Why NCPH Will Only Post Jobs with Compensation Information." History@Work: The NCPH Blog, November 3, 2020.
Tang, Lydia, Katarina Hering, Alison Clemens, Bridget Malley, and Amy Wickner. "Summer 2020 Archival Workers Emergency Fund Survey Summary." Archival Workers Emergency Fund, November 10, 2020.

This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Amy Furness, Serenity Ibsen, Karly Wildenhaus, Lynora Williams, and Michael Wirtz.